Faith, Peace

You will ask me how faith and patience are related to peace. Well, peace comes with patience, and patience comes with faith. In this way, faith is also related to peace, albeit, indirectly.

& nbsp; Peace is a conquest based upon patience and faith. Whosoever utters “man”, utters “faith”. The housewife who sets out in the morning to make purchases for a full week’s supply does so because she has the faith that her family including herself will live long enough to use up the provisions bought from the market.

; What is necessary is to have the patience to wait and the marvel of life will reveal itself to us. Patience is closely related to faith; the faith that something will happen. In everyday life, we give ample proof of faith without even knowing it. This is amply illustrated by the fact that if we did not have the “faith” that we would return home in the evening, we would not set out for the office every morning.

&nbs p; The chick isn’t born all of a sudden.

It forms slowly and will not come out of the egg unless and until it has reached its state of maturity. At this very point of time, it will pass to the light of earthly life from its calm and tranquil existence in the liquid of the maternal eggshell. Now, it will have to contend with all the earthly difficulties and problems that come along with it.

&nb sp; The same is true for us, who during the long incubation period of scholastic life,concentrate and meditate on the values which will form the basis of our future life. This is the period as well when all our notions about life are formed gradually with the help of which we will face up to every circumstance, favorable or otherwise, during our earthly existence.

&n bsp; The young people are like an egg which must mature. The chick that shall come out of the shell will be a grown up man or woman that one day it shall assume the form of. Who has the patience and the faith that indeed a man or a woman will emerge? These are their parents/elders/teachers who teach them so that one day they are able to stand on their own feet and walk alone.

Patience is a component of peace which connotes the wise man who knows how to wait. Everything has its ripening period. The human-child is born after nine months, horse-colt after twelve, the elephant-calf after twenty-four, the chick after…, and so on.

&nb sp; And, patience comes and is based upon faith; the faith that after the long spell of patient wait is over, the desired event will happen definitely. Thus, we see that patience and faith walk hand-in-hand and both are required for our peaceful existence on earth.